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(No Model.)

E. B. GROGKER.

NEGKTIE'PASTENER. 7 No. 366,156. Patented July 5, 1887.

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NECKTlE-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,156, dated July 5, 1887.

Application filed July 8, 1886. Serial No. 207,397. (No model.)

shield, 13, to which the neekband of said neck- .To all whom it, may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE B. OROGKER, of tie is secured, and which takes up about the the city of Pawtucket, county of Providence, collar and against the front collar-button of and State of Rhode Island, have invented certhe wearer. To a point, 14, 011 shield 13 is 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Necktie firmly secured the cord or lace 15, provided Fasteners, of which the following is a full, with a rigid or metallic tip, 16, at the otheror clear, and exact description, reference being free end thereof. At a corresponding point had to the accompanying drawings, forming to the point 14 -is fixed the springbite 18. part of this specification. The point 14 and bite 18 are arranged at points [0 My invention relates to the devices known to one side of the center of the shie1d,'as as necktiefasteners, which are designed to shown. The bite 18 for the fastening-cord 15 be attached to neckties or scarfs, in order to is formed of a piece of resilient wire bent on adjust and maintain the same in wearing posiitself'thrce times, as shown clearly in Fig. 5, tlon. so as to form a central loop, 10, and the sides I 5 The objects of my invention are to provide or arms 11, which are provided at the free ends a device of this character whereby the necktie with suitable tangs, 12, bent at an angle there may be easily and accurately adjusted in poto and adapted to clinch and fasten ,into the sition, and whereby the necktie may be worn material of the shield. The central loop, 10, securely against displacement. of the Wshaped bite lies normally in the 2o To the above purposes myinvention consists same plane with the arms 11 thereof, and obin a fastening-cord secured to the necktie viously, when the cord 15 is passed under the shield by one end, and of a bite device, also seloop 10 and over each arm 11, as shown in Fig. cured upon the shield, and of a collar-button 1, the device forms a secure bite for the cord. having a perforated shoe or other suitably The collar-button 19 is formed of a saucer- 2 5 provided loosely-holding device for the fastenshaped head, 7, to which is fixed the doubled ing-cord to take through or about, all as herewire or staple 8, formed into the post and shoe inafter fully described and claimed. 9 of the button.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating In the form shown in Fig. 2 the doubled wire my invention, Figure 1 represents a back view 8 has the closed end bent into a narrow longloop 8o 30 of an ordinary form of necktie with my fastor eye ,to form the perforated or eyed shoe 9 of ener shown connected therewith. The springthecomplete button, and the sides of the wire bite is attached to the shield of the necktie, are bent in toward each other and constitute likewise the fastening-cord, which is passed the post of the button. The free ends of the through an eye in a collar-button, (shown undoubled wire are spread apart, as shown, and

35 attached,) and then passed through the bite fastened at opposite points on the circumferfor retention. Fig. 2 represents an enlarged ence of the button-head 7. The shoe 9', post, side view of the novel form of collar-button and free ends of the doubled wire 8 all lie in used with my fastener, the button-head being thesame plane, which is approximately normal shown in section. Fig. 3 represents an ento theplane of the button-head. However, in 0 4o larged view of a modified form of my fastenorder to throw the shoe 9 out of the plane of ing collarbutton, the head being in section. the other points of the doubled wire, as de- Fig. 4 represents .an enlarged side perspective scribed, the sides of said wireforming the post View of a further modified form of my securing of the button may be twisted on one another, form of collar-button; Fig. 5 represents a perand thereby turn the shoe into a different plane 45 spective view of the wire springbite as used to prevent the easy dislodgment of the button in my fastener. i from abutton'hole.

In the said drawings like numbers of refer In the modified form of Fig. 3 the shoe 9 is ence designate corresponding parts through formed as above described,- but the sides of out. I the wire 8, forming the post, are made straight,

50 Referring to the drawings, the ordinary and are brought together side by side and form of necktie, 17, is provided with asuitable fixed near a central point on the button-head 7. In this construction the plane of the two sides forming the post lies nearly at right angles to the plane of the shoe 9.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a still further modification, in which the doubled wire 8 has the closed end formed into a circular area to form the perforated shoe 9, and the sides forming the post are set together with the free ends flaring outwardly and secured at opposite points to the circumference of thebutton-head 7. The post stands obliquely to the buttonhead, and the shoe 9 is formed over about parallel with the-button-head. The collar-button 19,havingan eyed or perforated shoe,9,is shown as threaded by the fastening-cord l5 and as in a free or unattached position. It is to be understood, however, that the collar-button 19 is arranged at the front of the neck of the wearer of the necktie, and is set through the buttonholes of the shirt and collar, (not shown,) so that the open shoe 9 is disposed to the outside and abuts against theshield 13, in an obvious manner. It is now evident that by having the fixed cord 15 passed through shoe 9 of the collar-button, set in operative position, bydrawing on said cord the necktie will be drawn snugly up against the collar and collar-button, and in this position the cord is then to be passed through the central loop of the bite l8, and thereby secured against slipping, so as to retain the necktie in the desired adjusted position.

In fastening devices for neekties it is desirable to have the device securely locked and retained in the collar-button of the wearer, so as to be held secure against dislodgment therefrom at all times while worn. ordinary form ofa collar-button having a flat or disk-shaped shoe for holding the fastening device the accidental disengagement of said parts frequently occurs.

From the foregoing description it will be obvious that in the use ofthe button with a perforated sh 0e for holding the fastener the greatest certainty of security is provided, the virtues ofwhich will at once commend the device to users.

1 preferably use a non-elastic fasteningcord and arrange parts of the fastener as shown, However, it is evident that my invention may be variously modified without substantially departing from the spirit thereof, as herein described and claimed. For instance, another form of bite for the fasteningcord may be used as an equivalent for the one I show.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination of the shield, a fastening-cord secured by one end to said shield, a

With the bite device fixed to said shield at a corresponding point to said cord, and a collar-button provided with aperforation or eye therein,

said cord passed through said button-eye and bite, whereby the tension of the fasteningcord may be regulated to adjust the necktie.

2. The combination of the shield, a fastening cord or lace secured at one end to said shield, a spring-acted bite fixed to said shield ing-cord provided at one end with a rigid tip and fixed at the other end to a point on said shield, aspring-bite consisting of a resilient wire bent three times on itself, somewhat W- shaped, the central loop of said wire forming a spring-bite with either or both sides or arms, and the free ends of said arms formed with tangs to clinch in the shield, said bite secured by its tangs to the shield at a corresponding point to the fixed end of the cord, and a collar-button having a shoe with an eye therein, said cord passed through said eye and under the central loop of said springbite, whereby the shield may be drawn up toward the collar-button by drawing on the cord for adjustment and may beheld in any position by the bite.

4. The combination, with the button-head of the collar-button, of the doubled wire formed into a looped shoe at the closed end and the side strands thereof brought together, and having the free ends thereof bent outwardly and secured flatly upon the buttonhead and in the rim thereof, substantially as described, whereby a collar-button may be formed with a perforated shoe.

5. The combination of the shield 13, the fastening-cord 15, the collar-button having an eye or perforation therein, substantially as described, and the spring-bite 18, all arranged and constructed substantially as described.

6. The collar-button comprising the combination,with the button head 7 ,of the doubled wire 8, formed into the looped shoe 9 and the shank and having the free ends thereof bent outwardly and secured to said head, substantially as herein described.

EUGENE B. OROCKER.

Witnesses:

J OSEPH A. MILLER, J r., M. F. BLIGH. 

